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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Part of my rexxit so far has included me dusting off newsreaders and rss feeds again.

Im trying to find a good set up. Newsblur seems to be a front runner. I have nextcloud selfhosted, so I could use that with the $2.99 android app or I could pay for newsblur or feedly a few bucks each month.

Either way, having a self-curated feed of news these last few days has been pretty amazing. There is no algorithm tuned for engagement pumping news in my face. It's just stories, articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts that I want to see (on my terms).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fresh RSS is what I use, self hosted and the mobile web interface negates the need for an app. Though there is an app, I'm not a fan of it

After getting burned by Google killing Reader I decided to never use a 3rd party service again, and FreshRSS has served me well for years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What I use as well it sgreat and I keep it open in a column on my side monitor all day so I can casually glance at the news whenever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

any newsgroup recommendations?

[–] mormegil 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using News on (self-hosted) Nextcloud and for Android client, I use https://f-droid.org/packages/co.appreactor.news/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can self-host Newsblur, and the app is available on F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The no algorithm parti is pretty neat. Don't know if you are referring to the Nextcloud News app. If that's the case, it's free on the f-droid app store.